Athlete Who Uses SCENAR Wins Gold Medal in 2010 Olympics

Torah Bright, who has used SCENAR since 2004 to treat injuries and enhance athletic performance, won the the Gold Medal in Snowboarding in the 2010 Olympics (go to the bottom of the SCENAR Health website home page). She says, “Scenar therapy benefits appear to be almost limitless for health and wellbeing.” Read more about her Olympic competition experience on the SCENAR Health Blog.

Congratulations, Torah!

SCENAR can keep an athlete healthy, facilitate rapid healing from injuries, and improve athletic performance and endurance. Call us at 337-6854 if you want to be the best athlete you can be!

An Evolutionary Perspective of Medicine

In trying to explain the action of SCENAR to others, there are three scenarios I’ve found to choose from.The first, having to do with the physical action of the electrical pulses that cause the nerve fibers in the body to release neuropeptides (the chemicals the body uses to heal itself); second, is a deeper explanation having to do with the energetic communication of the instrument and the body/mind to enhance the energetic alignment inherent in the natural state of wholeness; and finally, the deepest explanation having to do with the change in awareness and consciousness related to the experience of wholeness and presence within and beyond the body that comes to an individual after a number of SCENAR sessions.

Initially, only the first explanation is used, but as the number of sessions increase, discussions arise related to the other two explanations because of the individual’s curiosity related to the changes in their experience of their bodies and themselves. There grows within them a confidence in what their body/mind feels like when it is becoming whole. One person put it this way when I asked how they were feeling, “I know my body is healing. What twinges of discomfort I may occasionally feel, I know are just what is being healed at the moment, and are really inconsequential, because I know the feeling of health that is now present with me.”

To my surprise, I recently found in the book, Reinventing Medicine, by Larry Dossey, MD, an explanation of the evolution of medicine that parallels these three explanations I’ve discovered related to my SCENAR work. He describes three eras related to our understanding of wellness and healing that have guided the development of western medicine since the mid 1860’s.

Era I (Mechanical Medicine) began to take shape in the last third of the nineteenth century and can be called materialistic, mechanistic, or physical medicine. It encompasses the therapies that largely dominate western medicine today–drugs, surgery, etc. It is based upon the classical laws of matter and energy as described by Sir Isaac Newton. Mind and consciousness are considered a result of brain mechanisms.

Era II (Mind-Body Medicine) began to emerge after WWII with research into “psychosomatic disease” and the “placebo effect.” It became clear as a result of this research that our emotions, attitudes, and thoughts profoundly affect our bodies, sometimes to the degree of life and death. These discoveries were an enhancement to the Era I methodologies, and expanded the understanding of the unified nature of the body and mind and health. The field of alternative and complementary medicine emerged as a major social force shaping medical care that grants a major role for psychological and spiritual factors in health. However, the mind-body effects remain centered within the individual–one’s own mind affecting one’s own body. This limitation opened up the further evolution into Era III.

Era III (Non-local Medicine) is emerging now. It describes the mind as being a factor in healing not only within the individual but also between individuals. Mind is considered to be not completely localized to points in space (brains and bodies) or time (present moment or single lifetimes). Mind is unbounded by space and time and thus is ultimately unitary or one. This medicine includes any therapy in which the effects of consciousness bridge between different persons such as all forms of distant healing, intercessory prayer, and transpersonal imagery. Current research is documenting these effects and applications of quantum theory to biology are creating greater clarity about the nature of consciousness and the profound connectedness that underlies our existence as individuals.

So, in our quest for healing and health, medicine has continued to evolve as our awareness and understanding have expanded through research. It will be interesting to see how Era III manifests in our abilities to know our own healing capacities and the possibilities of extending healing to each other and the planet.

February is National Wise Health Consumer Month

Seems like every month is claimed as some kind of national something-or-other month by numerous groups, but this one caught my eye. It was part of a newsletter sent out by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, which I have found to be a relatively reliable source of good information and worth subscribing to.

The website link in the newsletter contains information on Dietary and Herbal Supplements, Cost Information (which had an excellent discussion of insurance issues) and Research Results from NCCAM funded CAM research. I found the Herbs at a Glance page to be very well done containing a list of 42 herbs including information about what the herb is used for, how it is used, what the science says, and side effects and cautions.

This seemed like good information, so am passing it along.

Organic Growers School Spring Conference

This is our favorite conference of the year. The classes are always interesting and the community that gathers to participate is wonderful.  We get our supply of Ramp Cornbread Mix there every year! If you love growing your own healthy food, this is the conference to attend.

Healing Innovations will be there to provide free demonstrations of the SCENAR. If you are curious about it and want to give it a try, come by our booth. The results achieved with only a 10 minute session can be dramatic. If you have pain, let us show you what the SCENAR can do!

This year the conference will be in at UNCA in Asheville. Come for both days, March 6-7. For more information go to the Organic Growers School Annual Conference webpage. Looking forward to seeing you there!

Something New and Exciting

In working with SCENAR, I have been thrust into a new world of ideas about how our bodies heal,  and have become fascinated with the application of Quantum concepts to health and well being (see our Quantumly Curious page). The “body electric” idea of how we heal is not new, but was eclipsed by the chemical application (drugs) to healing back in the 1930s. With the discoveries related to Quantum physics, electrotherapy has begun to re-emerge as another way of understanding and utilizing the body’s own natural process of recovery and healing. The body is vibrational and utilizing its own frequencies, as the SCENAR does, to assist it in its healing efforts can revolutionize our approach to health.

Now there is an online magazine devoted to awakening the public to this old/new approach. Called “Quantum Health,” the first issue is now available. To access this new publication, go to our Quantumly Curious page. Happy Reading!

SCENAR is Going to the Winter Olympics

SCENAR is again involved in supporting Olympic athletes. First used by Russian athletes in the 2000 Olympics, more and more Olympic athletes around the world are using it to enhance their training, performance and recovery from injuries.

For more information about athletes who are using SCENAR visit the SCENAR Health website.

New Location for Healing Innovations

Dr. Steven Coward, ND

Healing Innovations has moved from its location at 65 Hill Street to the Natural Health and Homeopathy office of Steven Coward, ND at 54 Merrimon Avenue near Greenlife Whole Foods Grocery. We will provide SCENAR and Therapeutic Multilayer Blanket treatments from 10am to 6pm at this location on Tuesdays.

For those of you with lower limb problems that make climbing stairs difficult, we are available to provide treatments on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Fridays in your home for your convenience. We are also currently seeking a location within another wellness practice that is handicap accessible.

We are excited to be a part of Dr. Coward’s office and look forward to an ongoing collaboration that will provide our clients with access to a broader scope of high quality care that complements SCENAR therapy and enhances the healing experience we have been providing for the last 5 years.

To improve your general health or relieve pain from chronic conditions or acute injury, call us at 828-337-6854 for an appointment.